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It covers the turbulent events of some of the most shocking election results in recent memory, the November 2016 US Presidential Election, in which Mrs Clinton ran against newcomer Donald Trump - and lost.

Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail (Image: (AP Photo/Andrew Rush))

For democrats the result was unthinkable, and for weeks after the events of November 8 protests continued across the USA as people proclaimed that Mr Trump was 'Not My President.'

For Hillary and her team, the result was nothing short of catastrophic.

But in a twist no-one saw coming, Donald Trump rose to victory with 304 electoral college votes to Mrs Clinton's 227.

Yet in the popular vote, 65.8 million people voted for Hillary, compared to 62.9 million for her opponent.

So, what happened?

Election night chaos

Today Mrs Clinton told a sell-out audience of more than 2,000 people at the Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse, that she had been shocked by the election result. And that frankly, she had expected to win. She was, in no uncertain terms, 'devastated.'

"Everyone gets knocked down, perhaps not on the world stage, but the important thing is that you get back up," she said.

And she got up, it seems, with the help of ‘yoga and chardonnay.’

With astonishing honesty, Mrs Clinton recounted to the audience her shock at losing to President Trump, in an election she had expected to win until the final few hours.

Hillary Clinton is interviewed by Mariella Frostrup

And she named October 7 last year as a turning point. It was the day the Hollywood Access tape, which featured Donald Trump 'bragging about sexual assault', broke. But an hour later, news followed of an email from the Clinton campaign which some interpreted to be Hillary playing a part in a child sex ring organised from a Washington pizza parlour.

With laughs from the audience at Cheltenham, Hillary admitted, 'it's laughable,' but the fake news spread across the country through social media until one man took up his gun and went to the pizza restaurant to 'liberate' the fictitious enslaved children.

Luckily, no-one was hurt in his attack. But Mrs Clinton's frustration at how these events, and viral fake news, affected her reputation, was evident.

Trump is 'Putin's Puppet'

At the first mention of President Trump, some audience members at Cheltenham booed. And it's clear that there's not a lot of love lost between Mrs Clinton and her former oppponent.

She spoke at how she thought Mr Trump would develop from the controversial presidential candidate into the President. But she appears to have been disappointed.

After reluctantly accepting an invitation to the inauguration in January - 'I did not want to go' - she called President Trump's inauguration speech 'dark, divisive and dangerous.'

Hillary Clinton is interviewed by Mariella Frostrup

"Russia is a clear and present danger," she stated, blaming Russia for interfering in the US election.

“The forces at work in the election last year are still with us. It was the perfect storm.”

She also credited Putin with wanting to break up the EU.

And Trump, she claimed, is a worry, calling him 'Putin's Puppet.'

"I'm worried about it," she said. "There has to be consequences to cyber terrorism."

Fake news

The devastation that fake news caused her campaign appears to be a tough topic for Clinton, as is Trump's insistence in peddling 'alternative facts.'

"There’s no such thing as an ‘alternative fact’," she told Cheltenham, calling the concept 'insidious and subversive to democracy.'

"We must refuse to be silent and have courage to stand up to it," she said.

'Young women have to be more confident to withstand harassment'

Host Mariella Frostrup dug deep in her questioning when asking Mrs Clinton about her feminist views and why she didn't 'stand up for victims' in the wake of her husband Bill's indiscretions in the late 1990s.